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THIS BOOKLET IS THE WORK OF INDIAN STUDENT APPRENTICES 
AT HASKELL INSTITUTE PRINT SHOP, DURING THE MONTH 
OF JANUARY, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN. 




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The Origin of Stones 

LONG time ago there were no stones on the earth. The 
mountains, hills and valleys were not rough and it was easy 
to walk on the ground swiftly. There were no small 
trees at that time. All the bushes and trees were tall and 
straight and were at equal distances apart, so that man 
could travel through without having to make a path for himself. 

There was a large buffalo who roamed over this land. He had 
power to change anything into different forms. He got this pow- 
er from the water. This power would be his as long as he drank 
from the water at a certain place. There was a large mountain 
over which the buffalo used to roam. The buffalo liked this moun- 
tain so one day he asked if it would like to be something else be- 
sides a mountain. The mountain said it would like to be turned 
into something that no one would want to climb over. The buf- 
falo said, "I will change you into a hard mountain which I will call 
a stone. You will be so hard that no one will want to break you 
and your sides will be so smooth that no one will want to climb 
you." 

So the mountain was changed into a large stone. The buffalo 
told the stone that it could change itself into anything so long as it 
remained unbroken. 

In this part of the land there were no men; only buffaloes lived 
here. The buffaloes knew that there were men on the other side 
of the mountain who were cruel and killed animals, so they kept 
as far away from them as possible. But one day the buffalo 
thought he would go on the other side of the mountain and see 
man. He wanted to make friends with him so that he would not 
kill buffaloes. He went over the mountain and soon came to a 
wigwam by a stream of water, In the wigwam lived an old wo- 
man and her grandson. When the little boy saw the buffalo he was 
very glad and told his grandmother to be good to him. The buf- 
falo was pleased with the old woman and her grandson, so he told 
them he would change them into anything they would like to be. 
The boy said he did not want to be changed into anything, but he 




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wanted to become a swift runner. The grandmother said she 
wanted to be changed into something so that she could be with 
her son wherever he went. The buffalo said he would take the 
woman and the boy to the home of the buffalo. He would ask the 
buffaloes to teach the boy to become a swift runner, and he would 
ask the water to change the old woman into something which 
would enable her to be with her son always. 

So the buffalo, the old woman and the boy went over the moun- 
tain to the land of the buffaloes. They said they would teach the 
boy to run swiftly if he would promise to keep his people from 
hunting and killing them. He promised that he would do so and 
the buffaloes taught him how to run so swiftly that not one of them 
could keep up with him. The water changed the old woman into 
wind, so she could follow her boy wherever he went. 

The boy stayed with the buffaloes till he grew to be a man and 
then he was permitted to go back to his own people. The boy was 
made the leader of the hunters because he was such a swift runner. 
One day the chief told him to go and hunt buffaloes. The tribe had 
never succeeded in killing buffaloes, because they could not keep 
up with them, they ran so swiftly. The chief told the boy that if 
he succeeded in getting some buffaloes he would adopt him as his 
son and make him chief in bis place when he died. The boy's 
great ambition was to become a chief so lie determined to get the 
buffaloes. 

He started out with his followers and climbed the mountain so 
swiftly that he left his companions far behind. When the buffa- 
loes saw the hunters they were frightened and began to run, but 
the boy kept up with them and killed most of them. 

Now it happened that the great buffalo who got his power from 
the water was away, and while returning he became so thirsty that 
he drank of some water on the other side of the mountain. When 
he came back and saw what the hunters had done he became very 
angry and tried to turn them into grass so he could eat them, but 
he had lost his power because of the other water. He went to the 
stone and asked him what he could do to punish man for what he 
had done. The stone said: "I will ask the trees to entangle them- 
selves together, so that it will be difficult for man to travel through 
them. Then I will break myself into many pieces and scatter 



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myself all over the land so that the swift runner and his followers 
cannot run over me with out hurting their feet." 

So the stone broke itself into many pieces and scattered itself 
all over the land, so that when the swift runner and his followers 
tried to run over the mountain the stone cut their feet and the 
brushes scratched and bruised their bodies. This is the Indian's 
story of how there came to be so many stones all over the earth. 



The Fox and the Lobster 

NCE there was a lobster on the river bank sunning himself, 
when suddenly a fox came along. The fox said to the lob- 
ster "You think you are big because you have a pair of pinchers, 
but I can outrun you." It happened to be just one mile to the 
road. The lobster said, "I will give you your length start of me." 

So the fox started off. As he did so the lobster caught hold of 
his tail and held tight until they reached the road, when the fox 
turned around. As he did not see the lobster he began to laugh, 
but then the lobster said "What are you laughing about? I have 
been here waiting for you a long time." The fox saw that he was 
beaten, so he went on very sad for letting the lobster fool him so 
badly. 




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How Loneliness Created the Prairie Dogs 




URING the time I was in New Mexico, about a year after I 
' had come there, I went out hunting with some boys. 



After we had hunted for a good while we came into an In- 
dian village. We went to a camp and got our meals, after which 
we began to tell stories. The owner of that camp was a man 
named Augustean. He was an old man and he is the one that told 
me this story: 

Many, many summers ago before the white men came there 
used to be a good man; the people did not know where he came 
from. He was always hunting and fishing, and liked to be alone. 

One day while he was along ways from home, a little bear start- 
ed out of the brush in front of him. He chased the bear for a 
long time, finally it ran into a cave by a spring. The man whose 
name was, Loneliness, followed it, but just as he passed the 
spring a huge monster caught him and pulled him into the spring. 
He stayed there a long time. After the people had mourned him 
as dead, and had forgotten him, he came into camp and told them 
what had happened to him. The people only laughed at him and 
called him a liar, and said they: "You are telling too much to be- 
lieve." After they had done him this way, he told them he would 
pay them back sometime, not with wickedness but goodness. 

He then went away and was not seen again. He was in the 
monster's control and so he had to go back to the spring and go 
and study magic. 

Many summers afterwards a great famine came. There was 
nothing to eat. The Indians began to die off and fade for the want 
of food. 

This man saw this and he wondered how he could save the 
people he loved. He thought he would ask the monster, who was 
a magician, if he would help him. He at least made up his mind 
that he would steal the magician's rolls of bark and find out how 
his friends could be saved. 

At night when the magician was sound asleep, the Indian 
crept out of his lodge and into the magician's camp. When he got 
there he took some roots and laid it across the magician's mouth 
which would make it impossible for him to wake up. 



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The Indian then got the rolls of bark and began to study. At 
last he found out that the magician had planned out all of this and 
that it was he whom he had to outwit in saving his friends. He 
looked closer and found in the corner of a small piece of bark 
some writing which said: "In my belt there is an arrow which 
when you shoot it into the air will bring a lot of little animals." 
The indian then laid some more roots over the magician's mouth 
and then took off his belt. He found a little arrow about a foot 
long. He seized this and ran out into the world. 

He shot this arrow a good many times then broke it in little 
pieces so that another spell could not be laid over him. 

He then killed plenty of the little animals, which he called 
the prairie dogs, because they sounded like real dogs. He took 
the dogs to the dying Indians and so saved them. After the Ind- 
ian men had got stronger, he took them to the place where the 
prairie dogs were and showed them how to kill them and keep 
them from going into the holes in the ground. 

So the men killed plenty for there were many, many of 
them. When they got home the man, Loneliness, told them his. 
story. The Indians all were glad and begged forgiveness for the- 
wickedness they had done him. 

So the Indians now have the prairie dogs to eat and are not 
in much danger of starving. The Indians still remember that 
Loneliness created the prairie dogs. 

Ni-ni-bo-sho 

yJT^NCE when Ni-ni-bo-sho was roaming in the woods he met a 
deer who had a bow and arrow. Said Ni-ni-bo-sho "Let me 
see your fine bow and arrow. ' ' The deer hesitated at first but fin- 
ally let Ni-ni-bo-sho take the bow and arrow. After looking at 
them for a few minutes he asked the deer where was the softest 
part in his head. "My forehead of course," said the deer. In 
another instant the deer laid at Ni-ni-bo-sho' s feet. 

Ni-ni-bo-sho built a fire and cooked his deer. When he began 
to eat, a tree near by screamed so loud that Ni-ni-bo-sho got so 



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angry that he told the tree to keep still while he ate. But the tree 
kept it up and finally Ni-ni-bo-sho got up to hit the tree; but the 
tree held his hand fast to the bough the moment he laid it there. 
While he was hanging on the bough some hungry wolves ran close 
by and Ni-ni-bo-sho shouted to them and said "My brothers, 
don't go that way," while pointing towards where the deer lay. 

When the tree had given some advice to Ni-ni-bo-sho he let 
him go but told him to be careful lest he should fall into trouble 
again. 

When Ni-ni-bo-sho returned he found his meat all gone, (his 
brothers had eaten it all up). Only a few bones lay here and there. 
Looking on he soon found the head, but that as well as the bones 
could not be eaten. After much trouble he found that the wolves 
had not eaten the brain, but how he was to get it he knew not. 
When he thought it over he changed himself into a little snake and 
crawled through a hole into the head. But when he tried to come 
out he found that he had grown larger while he was eating. 

What was he to do? He called aloud for help but none came. 

By and by he raised himself up and found that the head was 
very light. So he ran and ran and after a while he ran against a 
tree. "Who are you?" asked Ni-ni-bo-sho. "I am Pine," said the 
tree, "and grow in the thick woods." About five minutes later 
he ran against another tree. "Who are you?" asked he again, "I 
am Ash," the tree said, "and grow near the water." "A-ha!" 
thought Ni-ni-bo-sho. "I'm near water," and no sooner had he 
said it than he felt himself swinging in the air and was soon get- 
ting wet. He had fallen from a high and steep cliff and so he could 
not get on dry land again. On and on he swam. 

Some Indians were out hunting when they saw something 
that looked more like a deer than anything else. "Deer! Deer! 
Deer!" they all shouted and towards the deer they steered their 
birch, bark canoes. 

On and on swam Ni-ni-bo-sho and so hard was he swinging 
that when he swam against a rock the head he was in broke and 
fell to pieces. Ni-ni-bo-sho changed himself back into his own 
.form and laughed at the Indians for their blindness. 

"Let's go back," said they, "it was only Ni-ni-bo-sho." 



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The Fox and the Bear 

HEN I was small my grandmother used to tell me this 
story: "The two chiefs, the fox and the bear, were camp- 
ing together with their companies. Each had a company under 
his rule. 

They were having good times while camping together; 
after a while tho food began to get scarce. They couldn't kill 
any game because they were animals themselves. They lived on 
roots and fruits. Fox was a wise chief and the bear was lazy and 
didn't do any work; just made announcements to his company 
telling them to look for food. Fox had three wives. They were 
different races or tribes. One of them was a duck, another was 
a frog and the one he loved best was a cricket and had a beauti- 
ful voice. Chief Bear had but one wife and he had two children, 
or daughters. One early morniing Chief Fox went out hunting 
for food, but he couldn't find anything. 

One day Chief Bear made an announcement to all the different 
kinds of animals. He said this: "Tomorrow morning I want you 
young fellows to go hunting for deer. The first fellow who brings 
me a deer can have my daughters for his wives. Chief Fox heard 
this. In the evening he went out hunting for deer for the next 
morning so he could just come and get it and be the first fellow 
to bring a deer to the chief. He killed one and put it in a certain 
place. When the next morning came he was anxious. He went 
right straight to that place where he had that deer. When he 
came to this place he could not find it for a long time, until sun- 
rise, then he found it. He took it home, then went right to the 
Chief's place. He passed his place. He wouldn't notice his 
three wives. When he came to the Chief's someone had brought 
a deer already, and he took his back to his wives. So they say 
"Cheating won't work." The rest I forgot. 




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A Blackfoot Indian Story 




HE Indians call this story "What the Old Man Did." I can- 
' not express the Indian name of this story in English. 



Once upon a time the old man was walking along a river. It 
was very hot and all he had was a buffalo robe. So he said he 
didn't need this buffalo blanket any more because it was too hot 
to wear and too heavy to carry. So he gave it to a big rock. He 
covered the rock with this buffalo robe and went away. By and 
by he saw the clouds getting black and that it was going to storm. 
All that he had for a friend was a fox. He told this fox: "Kun 
over and get my blanket. It is on that big rock where we were 
along the river." So the fox ran over and told the rock that he 
came after the blanket. "Who wants the blanket?" said the rock. 
The fox said "The old man." The rock told the fox "Anything 
that was given me shall not be taken back again." 

The fox told the old man what the rock said. The old man 
got mad and said: "I need that robe; it is going to rain; the rock 
doesn't need any blanket." So he went and got it. After he got 
about two miles he heard a curious noise and looked back. He 
saw the rock rolling after him. He ran up a high hill. The rock 
went up the hill. Then he ran down and the rock came down after 
him. He told the fox to run in a hole and the fox did. Then 
the old man saw a big hole just his size and he crawled in and the 
big rock came and blocked the hole. The old man stayed in the 
hole for three days till the fox dug a hole big enough for the old 
man to crawl through. So he was safe at last, then he w T ent up 
the river. As he came near the stream he saw in the water some 
red berries. He was hungry; he had to have some; so he began 
to dive for the berries but did not succeed in getting any, so he 
said, "I have to have some." He went and got some rocks and 
cut strings from the robe, tied the rocks to his neck, legs and arms 
and plunged into the water. After a long time he tried to come 
up to the surface but the rocks kept him down. He struggled 
along till he came to the top. His stomach was full of water. He 
felt pretty sick; he laid down on his back and looked in the trees 
and saw the berries on the boughs overhead. The berries were 
over the water. He said to himself: "I was diving after the shad- 
ow of the berries and I am nearly dead." 



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How a Boy Got to the Land of Spirits 

QfN old man once lived in a little hut with his little son. Every 
A\ day his son would go out hunting. One day his son went to 
sleep by the river and he had a very nice long dream about how 
he became a chief and a good hunter. So he went again the next 
morning and went toward the east where he met a big snake. 
The snake told him if he would get him some kind of animal to 
eat, he would let him pass through the water which was very 
deep. So the boy ran and killed a bird and gave it to the snake 
who said he could pass. He went on and on until he came to a lit- 
tle tent by the river. He was very tired and hungry. He went 
in and made himself at home. He stayed there all day and wait- 
ed till some one might come. Nobody come and he thought he 
would stay there all night, so be did. 

The next morning be had his breakfast and thought he 
would leave. As he was walking along the road he heard some 
one calling him by his name. He stopped to see who it was. He 
saw no one so he took a few steps then he heard the same word 
again . 

He came back home again and told his father all about what 
he did and what he had seen. His father told him that he had 
been in the land of the spirits and told him to go again and see if 
he could find his mother there. 

He went to try his luck again; he went in the same road which 
he went before. He heard singing and dancing and he thought he 
would sit down and listen to them. He heard some one calling 
him; he looked around and saw his mother standing beside him. 
She took him and showed him all the things around there. When 
he went back he told his father that he had seen his mother in 
the land of spirits. So the Indians say to their children and the 
men and women not to be afraid when they are dying because 
they will be happy when they get to the land of the spirits. 

This is told by one of the old Indians and now the old Indians 
are nearly all gone. Maybe they are now in the land of the spir- 
its. 



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The Seven Hunters 

HERE is a story told about seven Indian hunters when our 
ancestors lived in the state of Indiana. Every winter they 
used to go down the Mississippi River and down to the south- 
ern states. 

There were seven Indian hunters who loaded a canoe with 
bows, arrows, flour, clothing, tents, axes and such things as they 
might need for the four or live months that they were to be gone. 

They got in their canoes and paddled for the southern states. 

When they got to the place where they were going they 
pitched their tents on a rise of ground. One or two men were 
cooks at the camps for a week or two. Then other two men took 
their places while the others hunted. The men that were hunting 
were supposed to kill all the game, skin it and dry all the meat, 
which was cut into long strips. 

One day the hunters went out to hunt again. They saw a 
large turtle by the lake. They thought they would have a little 
ride, so all got on the turtle's back. Their feet stuck to the tur- 
tle so that when they tried to pull loose they could not. The tur- 
tle crawled into the water and the men were drowned. 

In the evening the cook had their supper prepared, but the 
hunters did not come. The cooks thought maybe their game was 
too heavy to carry, so they waited for two or three days and yet 
the hunters did not return. The cooks took a canoe and sailed 
back to their homes and told the people that the men were mis- 
sing. There was an old man who had power over the water and 
when they told him he said he would find out. They took a canoe 
and went to the southern land where they had camped. The old 
man went to the water's edge and called up a fish. He cut a piece 
of its flesh off and burnt it. He put the fish back into the water 
and said to it "You are not the one that killed the hunters." Then 
he called up the eel and cut a piece off its flesh. He burned it and 
said "You did not kill the hunters," so he let it go. He called the 
snake. He heard the waters roar and saw a large snake coming. 
He cut a piece of flesh off and burned it and said, "You can go, you 
are not the one." Then he called up the turtle which was guilty 




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It would not have come but it had to as the man had power over 
the waters. So he cut a piece off its flesh and burned it. He said 
"You are the one that killed the hunters." Then he burned the 
turtle up and saved all the ashes from the animals he had burned. 

Then they sailed back to their homes. When they got back 
the people were very glad to see them. He called a meeting of the 
people and put the ashes in small bags and gave a bag to each 
person. Before he gave the bags to them, he told them they 
could be whatever they wanted to be. Some said they wanted to 
be rich. Some said they wanted to be good-looking. Some said 
they wanted to be brave warriors. One man said he wanted to 
rest. 

After he had given all the bags away they went home. They 
became w T hat they wanted to be. This man that wanted to rest 
went to the camp and rested. The people soon became tired of 
him, so about two years after planned to take him to an island 
and leave him there. One man went after him; he came, and 
these men told him they were going out camping and wanted him 
to go along. 

When these men got to the island they went out hunting, 
but this lazy man stayed and slept all the time. The other two 
men got in their canoe and left him. When he awoke he saw no- 
body. Then a strange person appeared to him and told him that 
these men had left him and said "Tomorrow I will come after 
you in my own form. You must not get scared. " 

The next day this lazy man heard the waters roar. He went 
to the water and saw a large snake coming with horns like the 
largest trees. He said to the lazy man, "Get on the highest tops 
of my horns and I will take you home. You will become smart 
and you can kill any game you wish." He got on and the snake 
took him home. When he got home the people were very suprised 
to see him. He became the greatest hunter and warrior of the 
tribe. The people liked him after that. Finally he became chief 
of the tribe. 



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The Ant and the Bear 

NCE upon a time, the ant and the bear had a quarrel. The 
bear said he wished it would be night and day for six months 
every year. He wished this because he stays in his house all 
winter, they say, and comes out in summer. The ant said she 
wished it would be night and day all the time, like it is now. 

So they made up their minds to race and see which one of 
them would win their wish. So they started and the big bear 
would say, "Night and day every six months! night and day every 
six months!" And the ant would say, "Night and day, night and 
day all the time!" They said the one who would say his wish the 
most for a week would win. The ant would jump up and down 
all the time and say her wish. The bear would say his wish for 
a while then go and eat. But the ant wouldn't go and eat, so she 
was getting very thin and small. The bear was afraid now, so he 
quit, and she won the wish. 

It is said that the ant was as big as the bear till they got in 
this quarrel, and she got small. It is said the bear will always 
eat the ants when they come across any. It is because the ant 
beat the bear and so it is today: night and day, and I am glad it is, 
too. Aren't you? 




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Why We Have Cyclones 

NCE there were some Indians who wanted something to cool 
them off, so they discussed what to do. Finally the Indians 
began to come together and they camped in a place where they 
could have more room. One day an old Indian said: "I will tell 
you what we can do. Keep close to me and watch me what I will 
do. Go, some one, and get me some mud from the river." So 
some women went and got some red mud from the river." "Every- 
body look now and see what I am doing. First thing is the red 
mud I got in my hand. We will make it in a shape like this" and 
he made a very ugly animal, the head first, then put on four legs 
and a loug tail. "Now watch and see what I made. I will blow 
and after that all of you people blow. Now, look, everybody. Use 
your muscles when I say 'Be big now' and do what you can." 
Then the old man said: "Red mud show us, please, what you can 
do on this earth. We are so hot and smothered. Now, go." 

Up and up in the air he flew like a bird. People begin to cry 
and everybody was running about. They said: "Please, good cy- 
clone, stay! Stop on the earth." 

He flew like a wild, fierce horse. He jumped up and down 
over again and said "Ah - ha! old man, see what you have done." 
"See what you have done; you the let ugly thing go," said those 
on earth. So the old man called the ugly thing and said: "People 
are crying and you tear down trees, you blow too much. Please 
come to me. I will make you over again." So the ugly thing 
came down and the clouds became as black as a crow. 

"It is too windy on this earth," cry again the people. "You 
are ugly, you are crazy and wild. We will make you better than 
this," said the old man. So he made the clay in the shape of a 
wild horse, then said: "Now, cyclone, again you go and let us see' 
you." He went up in the air. "Now we can be cool, hereafter," 
said the old Indian. 

The people still crying called out: "Please, please, cyclone 
you can go now and do not ever come again; stay up in the sky." 

"All right," said cyclone. "I'll do what you tell me." Soup 
he flew. That is the reason we see in the clouds the head of a horse 
with a tail like a snake. To this day you will see him in the sky 
just the way they made him. When the Indians see him coming 
they run out and cry: "Please jump over us and don't blow us 
away with your breath." Soto this day Indians are not afraid 
of cyclones like the white people. 




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Fourth Grade Indian Stories. 

NCE there were some Indians traveling and one evening it 
was so dark that they could not very well travel, so they 
camped that night and in the morning they went away again and 
at the place where they camped they left two little puppies. One 
of them was pretty and the other was ugly. So one time there 
was a little Indian boy who went out hunting and saw these dogs 
at this camp and he wanted one of them to take home to his mother. 
So he decided to take the prettest one. After he got home he 
showed it to his folks, and his father and mother told him not to 
keep the dog because it was a witch. His father had a great herd 
of buff aloes in a great big fenced -up lot and had them covered up 
and did not let anybody look at them. One day the little boy 
thought he would take his little puppy down to see the buffa- 
loes. He went down to where they were fenced up and took the 
cover off and forgot about what his father had told him. His little 
puppy jumped out of his arms and turned into a great big wolf 
and chased the buffaloes and killed some of them. But most of 
them got away. 

The Indians believe that since the wolf ran after the buffaloes 
that they got wild. They believe that they used to be tame like 
cows or horses. 

H @ H 

Once upon a time there was a turtle lived in a large pond. 
Hot summer came and dried the water up and the turtle could do 
nothing so he went off. As he was going along he became hungry 
for water so he turned himself and looked up and said to the cloud, 
"Rain." The clouds gathered together and it rained. That is the 
way the turtle made it rain and got back to the pond with his fam- 
ily and was happy forever. 

Ill 

This little Indian story tells how they named Devil's Lake. 
The Sioux said that all the devils live in the lake because once they 
made a bridge across the lake and it broke down into the water. 
The water of that lake is salty. The devil's basin which is on the 
side of a hill not far from the lake is very pretty. They say that's 
where the devils go to wash themselves. The devils' basin is 
shaped like a real basin. 




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Many years ago when there were no pine trees on the land 
there lived an Indian who had a son. This little fellow was good 
and kind to his parents and always was willing to obey them. 
One day his father sent him into the woods to gather up wood 
that they might burn. The youth was brave and strong and knew 
no fear. 

As he was walking along in the thick woods he heard a voice 
calling him by name "La-kah" which means "pine." He stopped 
and listened but could not hear anything but himself breathing. 
At last he started on again until, he came to a brook and on looking 
over its bank saw a toad. Stooping down to the toad the boy asked 
the toad if he knew something about the voice which he (the boy) 
heard in the woods. The toad told the boy that if he heard it 
again he should answer it saying "Tsickin-in-im mihoket," which is 
to say "Speak, my Good Spirit." 

So the boy went on gathering wood and on his way home he 
heard it again, and the little boy answered saying "Tsick-in-im 
mihoket." This is what the spirit said to him: "In all the wood- 
land that I have roved I have never found a boy like you, so I will 
change your life and make you live as a growing pine, but I will 
make you strong and large and each year you will grow, until you 
are tall and straight. You will be taller than all the rest of the 
trees." 

The spirit took him and planted him in the forest and the lit- 
tle tree grew and spread its arms and fingers upward. Many 
years it grew and an old man was walking by and seeing the tree 
stopped and looked at it with wonder 

The tree was tall, straight and large. It waved its arms as it 
swayed back and forth. Soon the man stepped closer and in his 
wonder said, "I wonder what this tree is called.'' The tree whis- 
pered and said "My name is, 'La-kah.' The Good Spirit planted 
me here and said that after me there would be forests of tall pine 
and that there will be plenty of wood for the little dear red child- 
ren." 

For many years the pine tree grew and many more afterward. 



INDIAN LEGENDS BY HASKELL STUDENTS 



Legend of the Buffalo and the Coyote 

NCE upon a time there was an old coyote who could not get 
anything to eat. So he went to a buffalo that was feeding 
on the grass near by. Now this buffalo had magic power; he could 
change himself into any form he wanted to be. The coyote told 
him how hard it was for him to get food and he wished he could live 
like him so that he would not have to hunt for food and the coyote 
said, "I sometimes have to eat what you would not come close to." 
The buffalo promised he would help him if he would promise not to 
do the same thing to some of his kind. The coyote was very glad 
so he promised. The first thing the buffalo did was to dig a deep 
ditch with his horns, then he told the coyote to stand at one end 
while he stood at the other end and he said to him, "I will run as 
hard as I can. When you see me coming do not move. When I toss 
you in the air as soon as you touch the ground you will be a buffalo. " 
The coyote stood still and when he was tossed into the air he was 
changed into a fine buffalo. 

The buffalo watched him for a long time, so that he would not 
break his promise. But one day when they were feeding the 
buffalo went to a wallow and laid down. Soon he was fast asleep. 
While the other one was feeding there chanced to pass that way a 
large coyote. When the buffalo-coyote saw him he said to him; 
"Don't you want to be like me. See how easy I get my food. I 
do not have to hunt for it." The coyote jsaid he would like to be a 
buffalo but nobody would help him. So the buffalo that was once 
a coyote said to him, "I will help you." So he dug a deep ditch 
and told the coyote to stand on the end, then he said to him : "When 
you see me coming toward you do not be frightened ; I will not 
hurt you." 

But the real buffalo happened to wake and he saw what was going 
on, but he acted like he was asleep, and he said to himself, "When 
you both touch the gro nc you will be coyotes again." They both 
went into the air, but when they touched the ground they were both 
coyotes again. The coyote was so ashamed of himself he did not 
know what to do. He ran in the tall[grass and hid. 




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